FBI investigators are concerned that an alliance between El Salvador’s MS-13 gang and Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua is forming, which might lead to crime sprees terrorizing New Yorkers due to the open southern border.
According to an FBI agent who talked with the New York Post’s Isabel Vincent, Tren de Aragua members have taken advantage of President Joe Biden’s border policies, which allow thousands of illegal aliens to enter American cities every day.
As a result, the Venezuelan street gang’s membership has skyrocketed across the sanctuary city of New York City, notably in the Bronx. Last year, Breitbart News learned that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro permitted senior Tren de Aragua leaders to live in a VIP-style jail and even escape in numerous cases.
Among those jail escape cases is Hector Guerrero, the head of Tren de Aragua, who law enforcement officials have said may be hiding in the United States after illegally crossing the southern border.
The FBI is concerned that Tren de Aragua’s rising membership in New York City’s five boroughs would lead to the gang joining forces with El Salvador’s MS-13 Gang to carry out violent attacks, robberies, and other criminal actions.
The NYPD recently detained Franco Alexander Peraza Navas, a 30-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
According to authorities, Navas is the boss of a local group responsible for several thefts, shoplifting instances, and a scam in which illegal aliens steal mobile phones from New Yorkers in order to access their bank accounts.
In a recent instance, two Venezuelan illegal aliens physically dragged a 62-year-old female New Yorker down a Brooklyn street in an effort to take her phone.
According to the Post, Navas told the NYPD, “In a million years, I never believed you’d catch me.” “I’ve been coming to Miami every three weeks, and it’s much bigger than me,” implying that the robbery ring comprised of Venezuelan illegal aliens operates in several states.
Seven illegal immigrants from Venezuela were detained in New York City last week in connection with a telephone heist scam. Similar to this, the NYPD detained a 15-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela last week for stealing in Times Square and shooting a female visitor.
The fresh arrests come as NYPD police continue to search for additional Venezuelan illegal aliens who were allegedly engaged in an attack on cops in Manhattan that was captured on camera and received global attention.
